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Something peculiar happened down at the compound where they edit the movie trailers: the soundtrack and and text font for the next Die Hard movie (Die Hard 5: Eat Right or Die Hard, The Diabetes Chronicles) were accidentally edited into the trailer for the movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s painfully British Brideshead Revisited. Seriously, what is going on here? Since when do they sell British period films with electric guitar riffs and ALL CAPS BOLD. It’s eerie to witness, really, especially because it’s an Evelyn Waugh story. As someone who’s read the first thirty pages of at least two Waugh books, I consider myself an expert on his work, and I’m fairly certain it calls for a Dario Marianelli score and something tasteful and wry font-wise, maybe Nickelodeon, or something along those lines.

Someone was nice enough to edit together some footage from the early-’80s BBC adaptation of Brideshead Revisited and set it to that movie’s main theme, giving us a good idea how this trailer ought to look:

Now that’s more like it: boring. Honestly, no matter how kickass his book jackets are, the truth remains: Evelyn Waugh is boring, and the trailers for his stories ought to reflect that.